Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44833, Joseph Fox, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Fox, Joseph
S. 44833
{ B.L. Wk. 700-200 (Capt. Issued Feb. 11, 1800. Certif d June 9, 1815. No papers.
CONTENTS

3950
New York Roll
Joseph Fox Colo Jackson
Captain Waspa-cherty line In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on the 25 of March 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 of Oct 1818 and sent to Archibald Smith Esq. Rhinebeck New York
Arrears to 4th of Sept — 1818 107.17 Semi-annual all'ee ending 4 Mar 1819 120.00
5 Mo \frac{7}{31} & \frac{4}{30}  July 9 1827 $227.17
Henley
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Years Dead -
✓ Dutcher see roll - Rhinebeck, N. York 24th Dec 1820

Joseph Fox Capt. 821 Rhinebeck, Dutch Co. New York -
Joseph Fox Esq. Application
Commencing on the 25 th of March 1818
To Archibald Smith Esq. Accepted by the application
Rhinebeck New York
respect the enclosed commission may be returned to him
Admitted

State of New York County of Dutchess } ss.
Joseph Fox Esquire being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was one of the minute men of the town of Bellicus in the State of Massachusetts, since in that capacity fought the Common enemy at Lexington on the 19th of April 1775. On the next day after that battle, he joined the Regi- ment of Col. Price, of the Massachusetts Line, which was afterwards in the Memorable battle of Bunker Hill, & continued in said Regiment acting as the Adjutant thereof, until a new organization of the Army took place. He then remained in the Armies of the United States, acting in various situations until the 23 d of June 1777, when he was Commissioned by Congress, as a Captain, and took command of a Company in Col. Henry's Regiment, of the three Conti- nental Battalions, commanded by Col. Jackson, Henry & Lee. He also acted at the same time, for one year, as pay master of said Regiment.
After the above mentioned Battalions were consolidated into one, by the name of the Ninth Regiment, he continued in actual service in the consolidated Reg t , under Col. Jackson, & with different commissions, until late in the year 1782; when his country having no longer a foe to combat, he availed himself of the permission of Genl. Patterson then commanding that division, & under the order for the first reduction of the Army, was honorably

discharged at Newburgh, in the state of New York in December 1782. Thus closing a period of service, in which he had without interruption borne arms in defence of liberty, from the day the first patriot blood was shed, on the field of Lexington, until his country had secured peace, freedom & independence.
He is now a resident in the town of Rhinebeck in the County of Dutchess & State of New York. In the sixty ninth year of his age. Having for several years past, in addition to the infirmities of age, lost the sight of one of his eyes, he is incapable of labour, without a competency; and depending for support upon the labour of his son, a mechanic, & a young man of a family. In adjusting his accounts with the United States, he received for his arrear of pay, about three thousand Dollars, in final settlement, which event- ually produced him but two shillings on the pound of their nominal value. He has no written proofs of service but the Commission herewith presented: All his other papers, being voluminous, & considered of no value, were left without care, until none of them are any longer to be found. Thus situated, he throws himself upon the justice & generosity of his country — with con- fidence, that his claims will be found just, his pension allowed, and the remainder of his days made easy by the competence of her bounty.
Joseph Fox
Taken & sworn before me this 25 th of March 1818.
Martin Thomsone { one of the Judges of Said County of Dutchess

State of New York } ss: County of Dutchess }
On the twenty fifth day of March one thousand eight hundred & eighteen before me the subscriber, one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Dutchess, personally appears Joseph Fox Esquire, to me well known, in the fifty ninth year of his his age, resident in the town of Rhinebeck in said County, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the annexed decla- ration in order to obtain the provision made by the late Act of Congress, Entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval ser- vice of the United States during the Revolutionary war" ---
Dutchess ss: I the said Martin Hermance, Judge &c as aforesaid, do certify that it appears to my satisfac- tion that the said Joseph Fox did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the annexed affi- davit aforesaid, against the common enemy; and no particular form of proceeding having, at the time of the said Joseph Fox making his application, been prescribed, I now transmit the proceedings & testimony in the form the same was taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid act of Con- gress. Dated, April 18 th 1818. Martin Hermance

I Jacob Van Ness Clerk of the County of Dutchess in the State of New York Do hereby certify that Martin Hermsen before whom the above preceding affidavits have been made is a Judge of the Court of Common pleas of said County of Dutchess and State of New York aforesaid acting under the authority of this State and that the above  within is his signature In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County this twenty second day of April 1818 -
Jacob Van Ness

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Joseph Fox a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     1775- Minute man at Bellerive N.Y.   April 20, 1775 Adjt ✓ Ridge   June 25, 1777 Capt & Paymaster Henry Jackson   discharged Dec 1782 at Newburgh N.Y.  
Battles engaged in, Lexington
Residence of soldier at enlistment, _____
Date of application for pension, Feb. 25, 1818. His cl. was cl.
Residence at date of application, Rhinebeck, Dutchess Co. N.Y.
Age at date of application, 69th year of his age
Remarks: died July 9, 1827
A son is referred to, his name is not stated and there is no other family data.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

4 1 Rev. Sec.
Lee, Massachusetts,
February 17 - 1916.
Record Division, Bureau of Pensions Washington, D.C.
Dear Sirs:
Will you kindly give me what you have concerning the Revolutionary record of
Joseph Fox.
I give the following for purpose of identification;
Adjutant, Bridge's Massachusetts Regiment, May to December 1775. ( probably 9th- Massachusetts Regiment.)
Ensign, Burrell's Connecticut Regiment, January 23d- 1776.
1st- Lieut. and Captain. Retired January 1st- 1783.
Removed to New York State; Pensioned 1818. —————
Died March 24th- 1820. —————
And oblige
Yours truly.
Elizabeth D. H. B. a
Mrs George B. Boyd Lee Mass
✓

1916 Feb 28 Hist. Soc. George B. Boyd (Elizabeth L.H.)
44833 INVALID.
Rev
File No. 44,833
Joseph Fox - Capt. Rev. War.
Act: 18 th March 1818.
Index:—Vol. 3, Page 175
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1020 THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN (Congress) ASSEMBLED
To Joseph Fox Esquire (Greeting) We Reposing special trust and confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, DO by these presents constitute and appoint you to be a Captain in the Pensylvania Key-Stone Battery Artillery Regiment in the Army of the United States, to take rank as such from the twenty third - day of June 1777 - You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of a Captain by doing and performing all manner of things thereinunto belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers, under your command, to be obedient to your orders, as time, as you shall receive from this, or a future Congress of the United States, or Committee of Congress for that purpose appointed, a Committee of the States, or Commander in chief for the time being of the Army of the United States, or any other your superior Officer, according to the rules and discipline of War, in pursuance of the trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in force until revoked by this, or a future Congress, the Committee of Congress forementioned, or a Committee of the States.
Witness His Excellency John Hanson Esq President of the Congress of the United States of America at Philadelphia the Sixteenth day of September A.D. 1782 and in the Seventh Year of our Independence.
John Hanson
44833 By Order of Congress Lincoln Secretary at War

Three Cases Archibald Smith Esq
Plainbrook } N. York }
Rec d 30 th April 1818.
1 Admitted 1 Rejected 1 Refer d to Mr. Edwards

Phila. Delchp County April 22 d 1888
Sir,
I have the honor to transmit to you, three applications for the pension made by the act of Congress, for those who served in the war of the Revolution.
I am instructed by the applicants to request you will forward any instructions which may be necessary, and the certificate of being placed on the pension list, (if the claims are allowed) to Genl James Talmaadge Smith, the Representative from this county to Congress. He lives at Poughkeepsie, & will immediately attend to whatever may be required.
In the case of Capt Fox, one of the applicants, if it should be thought proper, he begs to have the enclosed commission returned to him, feeling an attachment to the commission, & wishing to preserve that testimony of his revolutionary services in his family. Should it not be thought proper, I hope your goodness will accept this as an excuse for this request, the feelings of a bolding & a decayed gentleman urged me to make it.
Very respectfully
Your ob t & hum ble Serv t .
Archibald Smith
Hon. Secretary of War

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Fox, Joseph GRADE Private LINE New Jersey
WARRANT NUMBER 8311 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED June 16, 1789 to Thomas Coyle, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.